(A/N: Sorry about my lac of updating this story at the scheduled point, but I was at respite, due to a long weeked in my country. Anyway, I just got back today, here you go. Again, different perspective, continuing from the previous chapter)
At the entrance to Borg Tower, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and many more inmates follow The Mechanic before stopping near the entrance. "The original Prime Empire cabinet is somewhere in this building." The Mechanic said, turning to them while pointing at the tower before turning back. "And we'll search every floor until we find it."
"Not so fast." Bastion replied, coming up next to him. "Knowing my father, he probably has it all the way to the top floor. Where his office is."
Ultra Violet soon came up to The Mechanic herself. "Bet you wish you had Fugi-Dove now." She sarcastically said, surprising him. "He could've just flown up there!"
In the middle of Ninjago City, Fugi-Dove was moving along the street, shaking his head from winking and waving his arms toward a citizen, who backed away, completely annoyed. He then passed a young woman, who turns to him, completely nonplussed by his appearance and the way he was moving before coming across Sylvester, who gives him a high five while passing him. Fugi-Dove quickly spun around to grab a newspaper from behind his bike, unrolls it and reads it, upside down, as he continued walking.
In Cyrus' office, Lloyd, Kai, Zane, Nya, Geoff, Gewuji, Blake and P.I.X.A.L. patiently wait for Cole to start the game before Cyrus turned to Gewuji. "Uh, Gewuji, I think you should look at this." He said before tapping a few keys. "This recording was taken not long after Prime Empire started."
The monitor shows some camera footage, which showed Hayden at an arcade cabinet, playing Prime Empire before backing away when the cabinet opens up to a bright light and he enters it before the cabinet closed, leaving his police hat behind. "Not Mantis too." Gewuji said to herself as Geoff placed a hand on her right shoulder before she turned to Lloyd. "I've changed my mind. I'm going in." Lloyd nods in agreement.
"We will find him, Gewuji." He replied.
At the entrance, two clones of Cyrus stand between the stairwells until shouts of determination were heard, making them turn to see The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the inmates coming at the front doors before they stop for the doors to open, and they do so before they immediately charge, some managing to chain the clones together in the confusion. The Mechanic, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the inmates head for the elevator as a security drone looks at them before Bastion jumps to kick the drone down while moving to catch up with the others.
In the office, the drone's point of view was now on the monitor, showing Bastion catching up with the other inmates in the elevator before the door closes, which everyone sees. "How the hell did The Mechanic get out of Kryptarium?" Zane asked as the monitor was now showing the elevator camera's point of view. "And there's Ultra Violet..."
"Bastion." Blake said, noticing his brother.
"Aliil and Grunin, too." Geoff said.
"They must have broken out of prison, thanks to Unagami." Gewuji replied.
"But, why did they come here?" Nya asked.
Blake turns to the cabinet. "They want the cabinet." He replied before heading to the console and presses a button.
Inside the elevator, it immediately stopped and the lights go out. "Powering down." The elevator's automated voice said. "Borg Industries requests you leave the premises at once. Or you will be sorry."
"Oh, you'll be the one sorry." Bastion sarcastically replied before opening a panel and placed his left palm on a scanner for it to scan.
"Cyrus Borg. Access granted." The elevator starts up again and resumes moving.
In the office, Cyrus notices the elevator was working again. "Damn it!" He said, wheeling himself towards some controls.
"Bastion must've reactivated it." P.I.X.A.L. replied.
"But how?" Lloyd asked.
"We're clones, Lloyd." Blake replied, reminding him. "We share the same DNA and fingerprints as Cyrus Borg."
"Then I should've randomly altered the DNA and fingerprints when I cloned you all." Cyrus said as he presses a button.
In the elevator, it stops once again. "Powering down." The automated voice said.
"Not again!" Grunin yelled as Bastion goes to press his palm on the scanner, only for it to end up beeping.
"Access denied." He tries again, with the same result. "Access denied. #Give it up#"
"Then we take the stairs!" The Mechanic said.
In the middle of the stairwell that the elevator stopped on, Aliil and Grunin force the doors open, and everyone ran out to start running up the stairs to another elevator.
In the office, everyone sees them running up the stairs. "Let's go fight them off!" Kai said.
"No, wait!" Cyrus replied, typing a few keys. "I'm initiating my building's defences." He turns to them. "It'll attack anything that moves, including you if you go down there!"
"We're Ninja." Lloyd said, disliking the idea. "We can't just sit out of a fight."
"Fight the opponents in the game. You just reach Level 13 before the real enemies get up here." Lloyd, Kai, Zane, Nya, Geoff, Gewuji, Blake and P.I.X.A.L. head over to Cole, who was still at the cabinet.
"How's it going?" Nya asked.
Cole sighs while wiping sweat off his forehead. "Harder than expected, but I'm almost done customising my avatar." He replied. The monitor showed a player character in underwear before being given monkey suit. He then switches it for an avatar with green hair and a bone in it, and a pink shirt. He then switches it for a cowboy costume.
"What?" Kai asked. "You haven't even started the game yet?"
He turned to Kai, annoyed. "Winning's all about confidence. I gotta look cool when I'm fighting."
"You look cool when you waste time!" Gewuji said, jumping over the tape while angered and pushes him aside. "Get out of my way!" She then started to choose the avatar.
"Hey!"
She then finds a kabuki avatar which is in a teal coloured yukata. "Now, this one is perfect." She presses the blue button, starting the game.
"Can I play it now?"
"NO! I'm doing this for Mantis." She starts to move the controls a little.
"Ah, you'll just mess it up, give it to me!"
Cole immediately came up next to Gewuji to try and force her away from the cabinet. "Get off, you fat bastard!" She elbows him in the gut, making him move back, and Kai and Blake grab hold of him.
"Let Gewuji play, Cole." Lloyd said. "Hopefully, she gets through it."
"Now we'll see who has the better security system." Cyrus said to himself, referring to the Dyer Island's security system. "Robot dogs?" He scoffs. "Robot dogs are for amateurs!" He presses a button.
In a hallway downstairs, Nindroids in white ninja suits come online and head down it. By the elevator, the doors open, and The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the inmates emerge to see the Nindroids. "This the best you got, Borg?" Bastion asked.
"Gonna take more than a few wind up toys." The Mechanic said, agreeing with him. They immediately charged at the Nindroids, who charge at them as well before they find themselves wrestling them. One Nindroid pushes an inmate back while Aliil grabs hold of one Nindroid's arms before placing his foot on its chest, started to pull on them, until they tore off, and uses the severed arms to strike the armless Nindroid down. One Nindroid forces Grunin to the ground and prepared to punch him, only for Bastion to come up behind it and struck its power source, shorting it out and causing it to collapse. The Mechanic punches a Nindroid as an inmate crawls between him and Aliil, who strikes a Nindroid, still wielding the severed arms. The Mechanic eventually manages to punch the Nindroid into a wall as a security drone was screening the whole thing with an inmate being flung across the room. Ultra Violet moves back to avoid a Nindroid's punch before she punches it herself, knocking it high into the air before it lands on the ground.
In Cyrus's office, the Ninja and P.I.X.A.L. were watching Gewuji as she played the game, with a little difficulty, briefly sighing a little, wiping some sweat off her forehead, and quickly rubbing the back of her neck. "Oh, for ****'s sake!" She yelled and slammed the controls in frustration when her avatar had just lost a life.
The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the inmates had exited another elevator with two inmates forcing the door open to a seemingly empty hallway. One inmate forces his way through them and heads down the hallway, only for a drone to appear and zaps him with red electricity, making him shake before collapsing. "Watch out! Invisible lasers!"
"Send the least important recruits first." Ultra Violet said before pushing an inmate out, only for him to end up stunned as well.
"I think we should have brought Fugi-Dove." Aliil said to The Mechanic and Ultra Violet as he came between them, a little concerned about the situation. "Anybody have his number? He's probably not doing anything too important."
In the middle of Ninjago City, Fugi-Dove was sitting on a park bench, feeding some pigeons while humming a little tune. "One for you..." He said in a squeaky tone, spreading some pigeon feed out to them. "...and one for you..." He spreads some more as a chicken flies up behind him. "And-" The chicken pecks him to get his attention. "-yes, one for you!" He holds out some feed to the chicken, which it immediately pecks at.
In the hallway at Borg Tower, several more inmates had tried and failed to pass the drone as one soon decided to step slowly, only to end up stunned as well. The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the remaining inmates look at the incapacitated inmates in anger before The Mechanic started to adjust his robotic eye. "Those security drones know where the lasers are." He said as one of the inmates tries to get up, only to get stunned again.
In Cyrus' office, the Ninja and P.I.X.A.L. watch Gewuji with amazement as she plays the game. "Alright, Loot Box!" She said.
In the hallway, The Mechanic moves for the wall on the right before jumping to bounce off it, landing on the ground before jumping again and turned to the others, becoming completely unamused that they're trying different tactics. Grunin was moving along the floor like a worm, while the rest copied The Mechanic.
In the office, Gewuji presses a few buttons as she was still playing.
In the stairwell, The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the inmates were running up the stairs before an inmate comes across an elevator door, and presses a button to open it, only to come across a brick wall on the other side. "It's bricked off!" Ultra Violet yelled. "We can't go any further."
Grunin growls in anger. "I'm gonna murder Borg!" He yelled, grabbing a nearby fire extinguisher and throws it at the wall, only for it to suddenly pass through and disappear, and a drone was now in its spot, meaning it was just simulating a brick wall.
In the office, Cyrus looks at the monitor as it showed The Mechanic and Ultra Violet. "Nice try!" The Mechanic said. "Almost fooled us." Cyrus becomes angered. In the stairwell, The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the inmate's run up the stairs, only for them to tilt and turn the entire thing into ramps. They all slip, but The Mechanic manages to grab hold of the edge before Ultra Violet grabs onto his right ankle, and Bastion, Aliil, Grunin and three inmates grab the ankle of the respective next person while the rest slid down, and were forced out through an emergency exit. The Mechanic then started to climb up the ramp while struggling with the entire weight of the rest of the group.
In his office, Cyrus groaned out of humiliation. "Should have gotten robot dogs." He said to himself.
"Floor 100." The Mechanic spoke through the monitor as he, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the three inmates march along the hallway. "I said I'd be on top again."
Gewuji growled as she was close to the final boss. "I'm so close." She muttered to herself as Kai and Cole watch her.
"Yeah, well so are they!" Geoff replied, calling out to them.
Kai and Cole turn to see The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the three inmates have reached the office. Lloyd, Kai, Zane, Cole, Nya, Geoff, Blake and P.I.X.A.L. face them and immediately poise. Kai and Zane jump forward as The Mechanic, Bastion, Aliil, Ultra Violet, Grunin and the three inmates charge before the two Ninja shoot their Elemental Powers at them, only for the combined fire and ice to melt, making a puddle of water on the floor in front of Grunin. He soon laughed at the sight. "Is that all you got?" He sarcastically asked. "A little puddle?" He laughs more as he started to approach them, only for Zane to fire another shot of Ice at the puddle, freezing it, and making Grunin slip, fall down and slide past them, coming across Lloyd, who was wrestling Ultra Violet before they jump back as Grunin stops between them, hitting the table the computers were on.
Aliil swings the Nindroid arms at Geoff, who ducks to avoid the one on the right before raising his arm to have the other one pass though his elbow and quickly wraps around it before kicking Aliil back, making him let go of the arm before he throws it aside. "Lloyd!" Nya called out to Lloyd while holding the tape. "Industrial strength caution tape!" She immediately does Spinjitzu as Lloyd quickly ran to grab the other end and does Spinjitzu, for the two of them to wrap the tape around Ultra Violet.
"Ninjago!" They both yell as they wrap her in it, and she groaned while trying to break free.
Gewuji was still playing the game, trying to keep the sounds of fighting out of her head. "Spin Kick!" She said to herself while Kai jumped and spun to kick an inmate down. "Dodge!" Cole slides between an inmate's legs before doing the Flare to knock him down and gets back up. The Mechanic charges at Zane and gives him an uppercut, sending him flying. "Thunderbolt Punch!" Grunin tries to charge at Gewuji, only for Blake, in his Spinjitzu tornado, to ram him away from her. "Maximum damage!"
The Mechanic turns towards her and prepared to head over to her, only for Geoff, in his Spinjitzu tornado, to ram him down and disperse. "Get away from my sister!" He yelled before backflipping when The Mechanic shoots out his mechanical arm, only for him to swing it under Geoff's hands, making him fall before jumping over him to head for Gewuji again, passing Bastion, who was wrestling with P.I.X.A.L.
"That all you got, Pixie-Wix?" Bastion asked.
"Do not call me 'Pixie-Wix' ever again." She simply replied before spinning and kicked him back.
The Mechanic was close to reaching Gewuji's back when Lloyd, in his Spinjitzu tornado, pushes him into a wall, disperses and holds him there. "Going to great lengths just to play a video game?" He asked. "Why are you doing this for Unagami?"
"He's pressing the 'Start' button on a new revolution." The Mechanic replied before grabbing him and turns him around for Lloyd to face his back against the wall. "And I will be Player 2, serving at his side!"
Lloyd raises his feet onto the wall and pushes himself off to force The Mechanic down. "YES!" Gewuji screamed at the top of her lungs, having completed the game, and turned to the others as an inmate charges at her, but she quickly fired a shot of Glass, hitting his right foot and making him trip. "Guys, I did it! Level 13!"
"Ah, that's great, but little busy here." Nya replied as she was still pulling on the tape holding Ultra Violet before swinging it, sending Ultra Violet flying across the room.
Soon, the arcade cabinet's secret doorway opens. "Would you like to enter Prime Empire?" The cabinet asked as the doorway opened to a bright light, making Gewuji cover her eyes.
She immediately turned towards the others. "Ninja, let's go!" She called out to them.
Kai was restraining Aliil and Geoff was pushing an inmate over to Cole to trip him over when they turn to see the cabinet is open and make a run for it with Grunin and another inmate chasing them. While still holding the tape, Nya looks to see Kai, Cole and Geoff pass by with Aliil and the inmate pursuing them before letting go of the tape, making Ultra Violet fall forward, crashing into them as Kai and Geoff enter the cabinet before Cole went to hold it wide open as Gewuji soon went inside herself. Lloyd was still holding The Mechanic back and Blake finds himself wrestling Grunin as P.I.X.A.L. was wheeling Cyrus away, until Bastion came in front of them. "Hello, father and Pixie-Wix." He sarcastically said. They were both surprised as Lloyd managed to force The Mechanic down and turned to see the whole thing.
Bastion prepared to come at them, only for Lloyd to charge and kick him down. Nya approaches the cabinet before stopping. "Jay better be safe in there, you dumb game." She said before entering it.
"Come on, Lloyd!" Cole called out to him.
Lloyd turns to P.I.X.A.L. and Cyrus before rushing for the cabinet. The Mechanic moves in front of him to try and stop him, and laughs, but Zane rams into him, knocking him down. "Go on!" He said. "Good luck finding Unagami!"
Lloyd heads for the cabinet, briefly turning back. "Good luck finding Milton Dyer." He replied before giving him a high five and heads into the cabinet.
Once Lloyd went in, Cole was about to head in when he notices Blake holding Grunin back. "Blake, come on!" He yelled.
Blake immediately turned to him. "Go, Cole!" He replied. "Find Jay and stop Unagami! I'll help Zane and P.I.X.A.L.!" Cole soon sees Aliil charging at him before he quickly heads inside and the cabinet shuts, causing Aliil to crash into the cabinet.
(A/N: In terms of having Blake stay behind... it was of some importance)
